Friday morning links

Quicksearch

Blog Administration

Open login screen

RSS Readers

Friday, December 22. 2017

Yale Secular Humanists Help New Haven Decorate for Christmas

Jerks

Z-man:

Most people reading this were trained to think hard work built character so a desire to work was a sign of good character. That’s a perfectly sensible belief in a world of scarcity. In a post-scarcity society, one where automation is increasing taking over human labor, maybe those sentiments about work are counter-productive. Maybe the way forward is self-actualizing leisure.

Like beer, TV, and surfing internet on the couch?

Christmas lessons from California

"Eminem Slips Slowly Into Insanity As Trump Continues to Ignore His Rants"

Texas Imam Calls On Muslims To “Kill The Jews”…

DOJ Releases New Numbers: One-in-Five Federal Prisoners Are Foreign Born, Most Illegal Aliens

Vanderleun: Ye Olde Conservative and the Elephant Burial Ground

The Decorous Silence of George F. Will

How Obama manipulated sensitive secret intelligence for political gain

Hell freezes over: Media start admitting that Trump's first year isn't a flop

Dear Democrats, Ownership Isn’t Theft

HuffPo Contributor Apologizes to Sen. Scott for His Prop Tweet

Left's Unhinged Response To Trump Tax Cut Reveals Their Real Fear: What If It Works?

Already working - TRUMP EFFECT: Apple Looking To Bring $252 Billion In Foreign Cash Back To USA After Landmark Tax Bill

Yep. Lower biz taxes and you get more biz which means more work.

Here are the top three biggest lies about the GOP tax bill we need to debunk real quick

Accurate Headline: Every Democrat in Congress Just Voted Against Pro-Growth Middle Class Tax Cuts

UN condemns Trump administration's decision on Jerusalem

Proof the right thing was done

The 5 most idiotic Twitter reactions to Nikki Haley's UN speech

Sweden’s Retirement Age May Need to Be Raised to Finance Islamic Welfare Colonization

Steyn on Australia's Muslin attack: We are the bollards

Trump targets human rights abusers with executive order

Good

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 07:03 | Comments (21) | Trackbacks (4)

Trackbacks

Trackback specific URI for this entry

PingBack

Weblog: www.thepiratescove.us
Tracked: Dec 24, 09:20

PingBack

Weblog: www.thepiratescove.us
Tracked: Dec 24, 09:34

PingBack

Weblog: www.thepiratescove.us
Tracked: Dec 24, 09:50

PingBack

Weblog: www.thepiratescove.us
Tracked: Dec 24, 10:50

Comments

Display comments as (Linear | Threaded)

Hilarious to watch CNN this morning going on about how awful it is that the US is condemning the UN over its condemnation of the US - these countries are just expressing their opinion and what's wrong with that? It's apparently only the US that's not allowed to express an opinion. Under its current management, at any rate.

#1 Jerryskids on 2017-12-22 09:06 (Reply)

A very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all the contributors to this wonderful site. So much to learn, so little time, but this place is a great thwack on the side of the head. Stay safe.

I noted that I had to do a George Will...who?...as I have dropped most professional, overly-paid pundits from my list of have-to- hear/read. MF is much more sane, diverse, complex and ultimately satisfying. Mr. Will and his ken need to get out more. Or read Maggie's.

#2 jma on 2017-12-22 09:21 (Reply)

Gee thanks. That is nice to read.

#2.1 Bird Dog on 2017-12-22 10:03 (Reply)

Maggie’s has been my first stop in the morning, going on eight years now. Great blog. Thank you very much for keeping it going. Merry Christmas!

#2.1.1 B. Hammer on 2017-12-22 10:21 (Reply)

Ditto! Great site, especially love BD's morning links and lectionary.

#2.1.1.1 Mark (a different mark) on 2017-12-22 12:31 (Reply)

Feliz Navidad

#2.2 Zachriel on 2017-12-24 11:29 (Reply)

"more biz means more work"--but now the geniuses are deciding that work is counterproductive in a post-scarcity society. Even a post-scarcity society in which the GOP cruelly ignores the plight of the poor. I'm dizzy.

#3 Texan99 on 2017-12-22 10:29 (Reply)

Yep. Lower biz taxes and you get more biz which means more work.

Nope. Not even close. There isn't a statistic that supports such a baseless assumption. Here's a more realistic scenario, thanks primarily to rightists*:

1. Create a system in which corporations write law and the voter has no influence.
2. Extort nation by offshoring profits.
3. Rather than outlawing such things, nation capitulates.
4. Rightists compound this zero sum problem, buy in completely, cite market forces that simply do not exist.
5. DC honors its corporate donor class and sells the nation on "reform" that changes virtually nothing, kicking a percent or two back to a slim minority of a beleaguered worker class, what remains of it.
6. Not a dime is cut from the budget, deficit, or debt. Debt rises.
7. Nation goes into even greater personal hock too as The Magic Christmas of 2017 approaches. Rightists cheer.

#4 Meh on 2017-12-22 11:52 (Reply)

*Faux conservatives, the neo-Neoconned Boomer Right, out spending their kid's inheritance, and a nation's.

#4.1 Meh on 2017-12-22 11:53 (Reply)

Good.
You cut back on the rhetorical flourishes and actually made a little sense.
Could use a little work on the smugness though.

#4.2 drowningpuppies on 2017-12-22 12:13 (Reply)

Are you back from a morning of television opinion, pup? Honestly, I can't say a substantive take on anything can compete with all that flash and bullshit. Just saying.

#4.2.1 Meh on 2017-12-22 12:23 (Reply)

Well said Meh,, you are right on IMO.'
''And the beat goes on and on''
>corporate donor class and their lobbyist

#4.3 RL on 2017-12-22 12:33 (Reply)

He he he... Leave it to lefties and the clueless (often one in the same) to cling to the notion that business taxes are not part of the cost of doing business, that corporations pay taxes, and that tax rates have no effect on behavior.

#4.4 mudbug on 2017-12-22 14:31 (Reply)

That old saw again. The business cost argument is so obvious not a person alive doesn't get it. What's only slightly less obvious is that rightists haven't a clue how things really work.

Give them an itemized list on it and they still defer to their cognitive bias replying to it.

Was extorting the public part of the Income Tax Law of 1776, mudbug, or was it the small print slipped in when the Founders wrote the measures in the Federalist Papers to create casino banking? I hear a lot of them said it was perfectly fine to gamble as long as you euphemistically call it investing and don't actually build any gambling halls yourself. And then they went out and got some chicks to do blow off of.

#4.4.1 Meh on 2017-12-22 14:48 (Reply)

I don't believe the founding fathers would agree with the amount of influence money has on the system that they crafted.Do you?

#4.4.2 RL on 2017-12-22 16:12 (Reply)

A lot of people think money has way too much influence on our government, left and right.

#4.4.3 RL on 2017-12-22 17:50 (Reply)

And again, what's your solution?

You come on here - day after day - and do nothing but bitch.

Offer a solution, or shut up.

#4.5 jimg on 2017-12-22 14:41 (Reply)

Then there was that time you gave yourself cancer smoking and slammed anyone who pointed out the warning labels.

You mewling child.

#4.5.1 Meh on 2017-12-22 14:50 (Reply)

Really good work you're doing on making friends and influencing people!

#4.5.1.1 Sam L. on 2017-12-22 17:16 (Reply)

I'd given up on my goal of providing my judging betters with material they somehow couldn't come up with on their own, Sam. All the more when they despise so much of it.

They're already brilliant; just ask them.

Tax "reform" simply wasn't. Look into it.

#4.5.1.1.1 Meh on 2017-12-23 08:27 (Reply)

FYI: Congress is working on Bill S.1241 to criminalize deliberate concealment of property or the control of a financial account aimed at Bitcoin

http://thesoundingline.com/bitcoin-now-worth-more-than-all-uk-pound-banknotes-coins-in-circulation/

#5 Five Star on 2017-12-22 15:25 (Reply)

Add Comment

Name
Email	(Your e-mail will not show in your comment)
Homepage
In reply to
Comment	By commenting on this site you agree to the site rules listed here. Email addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for email notifications. Quick reference guide: [i] italics [/i], [b] bold [/b], [u] underline [/u], [url] (web address) [/url]. More tips here. Enclosing asterisks marks text as bold (word), underscore are made via _word_. E-Mail addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for E-Mail notifications. To prevent automated Bots from commentspamming, please enter the string you see in the image below in the appropriate input box. Your comment will only be submitted if the strings match. Please ensure that your browser supports and accepts cookies, or your comment cannot be verified correctly. Enter the string from the spam-prevention image above: BBCode format allowed
	Remember Information? Subscribe to this entry

Maggie's Farm

Our Recent Essays Behind the Front Page

Categories

Quicksearch

Links

Blog Administration

RSS Readers

Friday, December 22. 2017

Friday morning links